The increasing demand for effective utilization of surgical theatres has put the hospital management system to find ways of improving the capacity utilization of elective surgical suites. The use of artificial neural networks has been widely proved in many healthcare applications. In this light, we undertook a prospective survey of the timing of events of the elective surgeries done in the ophthalmology department and trained the neural network on the target time of the elective surgeries. This research intends to predict the duration of such elective surgeries by means of artificial neural networks which is the first of its kind implemented for forecasting surgery times.

Key words:Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Prediction of SurgeryTime, Operation Theatre Utilization.